Renato Chiantoni

The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.

Misadventures of a sacristan with three eager tourists, a commendatore with a sheikh, a worker who is passionate about hunting with a wife too good and an appearance mistaken for a priest with a patrician family.

Two scoundrels - Tizio and Caio - didn't want to get into the military service so they decide to escape dressed in women's clothes, but were caught by the guards. Without being able to confirm their right to freedom, the unlucky fugitives were sold into slavery. But everything what happens - happens for the better and slave girls Ticiâ and Kaya become personal servants of the Empress Poppea...

Two scoundrels - Tizio and Caio - didn't want to get into the military service so they decide to escape dressed in women's clothes, but were caught by the guards. Without being able to confirm their right to freedom, the unlucky fugitives were sold into slavery. But everything what happens - happens for the better and slave girls Ticiâ and Kaya become personal servants of the Empress Poppea...

A young aspiring director steals a silent movie camera to make his movie.

A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..

Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life.

A man receives a telegram that his father is dying, and travels with his wife to his hometown. They discover that the telegram is untrue, and set out to find who sent the message and why.

The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".

Bombolini é um bêbado bastante inútil na pequena cidade italiana de Santa Vittoria nos últimos dias da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Quando chega a notícia de que o governo fascista se rendeu, ele sobe na torre de água para derrubar a bandeira. Depois que subiu fica com medo da altura e não consegue descer. Então alguém da multidão começa a gritar o seu nome para lhe dar confiança. O conselho fascista da cidade ouve isso e acredita que ele é o novo líder da cidade. Eles se rendem a ele e o transformam no novo prefeito. Ele assume o cargo e quando descobre que os alemães planejam ocupar sua cidade e tomar seu vinho (mais de um milhão de garrafas), ele cria um plano para esconder todas as garrafas.

Depois que sua irmã é sequestrada e assassinada, os planos de vingança de um pistoleiro envolvem o assassinato de dois generais para prolongar a Guerra Civil.

Pat Scotty is hired to eliminate a gang of Mexican bandits led by El Condor. Scotty craftily earns the trust of the bandits, enabling him to trap them all, but in the meantime, genuine friendship and respect have developed between him and El Condor.

Guy Madison has a high old time as a would be feudal baron in the Wild West. No one is willing to stand up to Madison and his henchmen, no one that is, except mild-mannered inventor Tom Bosley. It seems that Bosley has welded together a robot gunslinger, whom he calls "The Bang Bang Kid". Only trouble is, the "Kid" breaks down at the darnedest times. The film goes off in too many directions, but generally delivers the goods laugh-wise. (Source: SWDB)

Lawrence and Jane White are determined to find the man responsible for their father's murder. They suspect a number of people in the town of Owell Rock and hire a professional gunfighter to help them in their quest for vengeance... Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.

El Cisco is a mysterious Gringo accused of a crime he never committed. With the help of a doctor he pretends to be dead but when the dishonest Vice-Sheriff and his accomplices find out the trick - El Cisco is arrested! Thanks to his long experience and a clever stratagem, our hero escapes... well determined to seek revenge. source: SWDB (www.spaghetti-western.net)

Torrez Gordon (Fernando Sancho) necessita de sangue novo para a sua guangue foras-da-lei, para isso liberta um grupo de prisioneiros, para unir-se a ele ou morrer. Arizona Colt (Giuliano Gemma), não aceita nenhuma das opções e ruma para Blackstone City onde Gordon planeja um assalto. Quando um dos homens de Gordon assassina Dolores, uma das garotas do sallon, seu pai oferece um recompensa de 500 dólares pela cabeça do assassino ao único homem capaz de cumprir essa tarefa, Arizona Colt, que além da recompensa pede a bela Jane, irmã de Dolores como um prêmio extra. Porém ele falha em sua missão, é ferido por uma bala e vai se recuperar em uma igreja abandonada. Ironicamente Jane suplia por ajuda pois os homens de Gordon tomaram praticamente toda a cidade como refém. Desta vez vez Arizona é implacável e demonstra toda sua habilidade para matar de formas diferentes todos os criminosos.

A journalist goes in search of his missing fiance.

Bandit leader El Diablo who controls the country with his gang plans to achieve gold destined for Mexico but he is not the only one.

It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.

The town of San Felipe is plagued by robberies. Two Federal Agents are sent to investigate the major suspect, a local landowner. One agent works on his ranch, the other becomes his daughter's fiance.

O pistoleiro Mike Jordan escapa da prisão onde cumpre pena por crimes que não cometeu, para vingar a morte do pai e do irmão. Sua saga em busca do bando que exterminou sua família incluirá a descoberta de fatos que ele, até então desconhecia e que vão tornar sua vingança muito mais sangrenta.

On his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him home in order to ransom him to his father.

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence.

A blind girl and a disabled singer fall in love.

A man turns to a life of crime after his mother's death.

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Love story set in Milan during the Five Days of 1848.

A man and a woman would like to get married, but lack the necessary funds for the traditional "big" wedding. Thus they plan to escape to the countryside and "live in sin".

No funeral de Maria Vargas, várias pessoas se lembram de quem ela era e o impacto que ela causou sobre eles. Harry Dawes era um não muito bem sucedido escritor/diretor quando ele e produtor de cinema Kirk Edwards descobriram ela em uma boate de segunda, onde ela trabalhava como dançarina de flamenco. Ele a convenceu a aceitar a chance de atuação e seu primeiro filme foi um enorme sucesso. O Relações Públicas Oscar Muldoon se lembra de quando Maria estava no tribunal apoiando seu pai, que foi acusado de assassinar sua mãe. Foi o testemunho de Maria que o livrou e ela foi uma estrela maior do que nunca. Alberto Bravano, um dos homens mais ricos da América do Sul, lança seu olhar sobre Maria e ela sai com ele - mais para irritar Edwards do que outra coisa - mas ele a trata mal. Quando ela conhece o Conde Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini ficam profundamente apaixonados. Eles se casam, mas eles não têm uma vida feliz.

Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be forced to choose between going to church for marriage or going to prison.

The adventures of Count Angelo de Marchis as he tries to reach his besieged allies in Rome with much needed funds from England. Can he evade the pursuing "Contessa Sara Mondini" and her Milanese henchmen?

The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.

Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.

No Século 18, a atriz Camilla viaja pela América do Sul como a estrela principal de uma companhia de teatro e se envolve com três homens. Uma das principais obras na filmografia do cineasta.

The Woman Who Invented Love (Italian: La donna che inventò l'amore) is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film

A retiring teacher tells a young teacher the story of two old pupils, who once the war begins they will become enemies ...

Parma, 1815. A duquesa de Sanseverina vive uma paixão devoradora mas não correspondida por seu sobrinho Fabrice. Considerado traidor por ter apoiado Napoleão, Fabrice é obrigado a entrar para o seminário para escapar às perseguições. Depois de matar um homem em legítima defesa, novamente deve fugir...

Nicoletta is a young rebel, cherished by his forgiving father, until an old relative joins the family after the wedding of her sister, and insists that the impetuous girl is sent to college. Nicoletta becomes a true tornado for educators trying in vain to bring her under control.

The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy.

Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.

After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.

Annna, a rich lady, decides to finance in great secrecy a singular enterprise: the founding of a real center for the creation of ideas, directed by Mario Morelli, a poet and songwriter perpetually waiting for great success, and a painter, Enrico Bovio, who cannot find the inspiration or the model for a portrait of a woman he wants to finish. Both are short of money and, convinced of the brilliance of their ideas, wish to open that bizarre business, called precisely the "Bazaar of Ideas".

Venice Film Festival 1939

A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster.

Italian film from 1937 directed by Gennaro Righelli.